The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics

ISBN-13: 9781474413343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 348 str.

Douglas Den Uyl; Douglas Rasmussen

Opis

Contemporary political philosophy - especially in the works of Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls and Amartya Sen - has assumed that it can separate itself off from other philosophical positions and frameworks. In this book, Den Uyl and Rasmussen challenge this trend by moving from the liberalism they advocate in their earlier work to what they call "individualistic perfectionism" in ethics. They continue to challenge the assumption that a neo-Aristotelian ethical framework cannot support a liberal, non-perfectionist political theory by filling in the nature of the perfectionist ethical approach utilised in their previous political theorising.

Spis treści

Analytic Contents; Preface; Introduction: What is Ethics?; Part One: Making the Turn: An Overview of Individualistic Perfectionism; The Search for Universal Principles in Ethics and Politics; Tethering; Tethering II; Part Two: Facing a New Direction; The Perfectionist Turn; Because; Toward the Primacy of Responsibility; The Entrepreneur as Moral Hero; Afterword: Big Morality.